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unclepaulie · 08-19-2007, 07:06 PM

Just to close out this thread and provide some info that might be helpful to other members at this forum. I am a little disappointed at the lack of replies to my post at this forum. I received a great deal of input from another P-car forum that helped me solved my problem.

here is the latest on my mysterious windows problem:

i pm'ed a member at the other forum for help since he previously posted a similiar problem. he kindly pm'ed me back the following which i thought may be helpful for others.

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I don't think the problem your having would be with the top micro switches because the windows are going all the way down. The first switch, when activated, only drops the windows far enough to allow the top to open.

My thought would be that you have a short in the switch in your drivers door. The key lock in the door has a switch that allows you to raise of lowwer the windows from outside the car.

If you turn the key counter-clockwise to unlock the doors and hold it a few seconds, the windows will go down.

If you turn the key clockwise to lock the doors and hold it a few seconds the windows will go up.

That's the switch I would check out.

I think that by inserting somthing into the latch your over riding the command sent by the door switch causing the windows to stop. Kind of like if you press the window switch once to start the auto down then press it again and the window stops.

Dan
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i took dan's suggestion to check the door lock switch. i drive my boxster for pleasure only, i hardly lock my car and i never used the "hold down the key" method to lock/open my windows. so i thought i would just exercise that switch to see if it may be sticky or something. i turned it both directions about 10 times, each time holding it down. i did that on both doors, they both have the same feature. well, i am happy to report that after that exercise, my windows are not coming up on their own anymore. it's been a couple of weeks, the problem would have came up by now. i guest a word of advise is to exercise that switch once in a while to prevent what happened to me.

08-19-2007, 07:06 PM	#4
unclepaulie Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: East Coast Posts: 3	Just to close out this thread and provide some info that might be helpful to other members at this forum. I am a little disappointed at the lack of replies to my post at this forum. I received a great deal of input from another P-car forum that helped me solved my problem. here is the latest on my mysterious windows problem: i pm'ed a member at the other forum for help since he previously posted a similiar problem. he kindly pm'ed me back the following which i thought may be helpful for others. -------------------------- I don't think the problem your having would be with the top micro switches because the windows are going all the way down. The first switch, when activated, only drops the windows far enough to allow the top to open. My thought would be that you have a short in the switch in your drivers door. The key lock in the door has a switch that allows you to raise of lowwer the windows from outside the car. If you turn the key counter-clockwise to unlock the doors and hold it a few seconds, the windows will go down. If you turn the key clockwise to lock the doors and hold it a few seconds the windows will go up. That's the switch I would check out. I think that by inserting somthing into the latch your over riding the command sent by the door switch causing the windows to stop. Kind of like if you press the window switch once to start the auto down then press it again and the window stops. Dan ------------------------------- i took dan's suggestion to check the door lock switch. i drive my boxster for pleasure only, i hardly lock my car and i never used the "hold down the key" method to lock/open my windows. so i thought i would just exercise that switch to see if it may be sticky or something. i turned it both directions about 10 times, each time holding it down. i did that on both doors, they both have the same feature. well, i am happy to report that after that exercise, my windows are not coming up on their own anymore. it's been a couple of weeks, the problem would have came up by now. i guest a word of advise is to exercise that switch once in a while to prevent what happened to me.